Robert Richard Scanlan sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan (1801 – 1876) was an Irish

Ireland

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 painter and portraitist.

A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy

Royal Hibernian Academy

The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823.-History:The RHA was founded as the result of 30 Irish artists petitioning the government for a charter of incorporation...

 (1826-1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design.
He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College in Dublin as charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland. He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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 (1837-1859).

Two of his best known works were portraits of Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Peel

Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846...

 and the Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS , was an Irish-born British soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century...